In aus.bicycle on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:06:27 +1000
dave <
[email protected]> wrote:
> OK then. Seriously. theres one semi blind corner on Gardiner's Creek
> near me. One day I stopped to read a new sign just near that corner
> and had just pushed off when 2 kids racing each other came around the
> bend using the whole path. I swore.. got a squeaked "Sorry" A few
> days later while jogging on the same bit of path got overtaken by two
> women on bikes on the same bend. I did wonder what would happen if
> they met.
>
> We are not talking great judgment here but on that bend ( Under Toorak
> rd) there is no dodging.
A problem on any path/road with no lane markings - people tend to take
the whole "lane".
Saw it all the time (and did it myself the first week or so) when I
rode my motorcycle to work in Lismore. The roads from the farm I
lived on to the Uni I worked at were mostly unmarked. Plenty of
people would be in the middle of said roads till they saw something
coming the other way.
Parts of the Cooks River path with wideish path and poor visibility
have lane markings, but most don't.
There's not much can be done with people who aren't expecting someone
else, it's one of the main reasons for crashes after all "didn't see
him!"
I keep left and watch for trouble around corners, but I'm a motorcycle
rider so am used to being be at a closing speed of "a lot" with large
trucklike objects which is a good incentive to do so.
One of the big problems with cycle paths is that they aren't 'roads'.
People treat them as places where they don't have to look, and that
have no traffic. Cognitive disconnect - they see others using it, but
that's not "traffic". Meaning not cars...
Zebee
